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M. KENNEDY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,552, dated October 24, 1899,

Application filed March 15, 1899. Serial No. 709 ,186. (No model.)

T0 all whom t may concern/.-

Be it known that I, MARGARET KENNEDY, of Fredonia, in the countyof Williamson and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cook-Stoves, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a cook-stove which, while adapted both to baking and frying, may be so operated as to provide no more heat than is necessary to the work in hand, thus avoiding heating the oven when it is only desired to fry or boil. This end I attain by constructing the stove with two tire-boxes, over one of which the oven is arranged in a manner to gather from the firebox all of the heat thereof, and over the other of which tire-boxes removable lids are placed, so that food may be fried and boiled thereon.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of myinvention, while the claim defines the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formin ga part of this specication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the invention, and Fig. 2 is a partial horizontal section with parts broken away.

The stove is built on a suitable supportingframe 3, and the two tire-boxes 4and 5 of the stove are respectively provided with ash-pits 6 and 7 and ash-ledges S and 9. The fire-box 4 has the stove-top 10 arranged directly above it and provided with lids 11, as is usual in cooking stoves and ranges. If desired, the tire may be made to extend throughout the Whole length of the tire-box 4; but if thereis little cooking to do a partition 12 ma be placed vertically in the fire-box 4, at the middle thereof, to divide the fire-box into two parts, one of which may be used to the exclusion of the other. A flue 14, leading the products of combustion from the fire-box 4, is provided with two dampers 15 at the end adjacent to the re-box 4 and two dampers 16 at the other end. This flue 14 is also provided with a removable central partition 17, matching with the partition 12, and adapted to be used when the partition 1.2 is used, so as to divide the flue 14. The drawings show the removable partitions 12 and 17 in place,

it being understood that these may be placed and displaced at will, according to the amount of cooking which is at hand. The partition 17 is arranged between the two dampers 15 and the two dampers 16, as shown best in Fig. 2. The dampers 15 and 16 are provided with suitable handles 18, extending out of the stove to permit the operation of the dampers, two of such handles being shown in Y oven proper and which is separated from the casing 19 to form heat-circulating fines in communication with the re-box 5 at their lower ends and with the smoke-pipe 22 at the top of the oven structure. A suitable damper 23 commands the pipe 22. The flues between t-he casing 2l and the casing 19 are commanded at their lower ends by means of dampers 24, provided with handles 25, extending outside ot' the stove to permit the manipulation of the dampers. The handles 25 are shown in Fig. 2. For the purpose of regulating the size of the oven I provide a removable partition 26 similar to the partition 12 and adapted to be fitted vertically in the oven-casing 2l, as shown in Fig. 2. This partition divides the oven into two parts, and by its means the normallylarge oven may be reduced in size should the amount of baking on hand make such adjustment convenient. When the partition 26 is not in place, as shown in Fig. 1, dish-supporting gratings 27 are inserted in the oven, such gratings extending one above the other throughout the entire length of the oven and being supported on ledges 2S, projecting inwardly from the casing 21. The ledges28 are provided with notches in which the partition 26 may be fitted, as shown in Fig. 2. When the partition 26 is in place, short gratings 27a are provided for the oven and are iitted therein at the IOO front of the partition 26. The products of comb ustion from the fire-box 5 pass upwardly through the flues between the casings 19 and 21 and into the smoke-pipe 22. When the partition 26 is in place, it is necessary to divide the fines between the casings 19 and 21, thus cutting oft the portions of the lues which are behind the partition 26, and therefore adjacent to the temporarily-un used portion of the oven. This is effected by means ot three dampers 28, which are mounted between the easings 19 and 21 and which are provided with handles 29, extending into the oven, by means of which handles the dam pers may be thrown to open or closed positions. The position of the partition 26 is determined by the notches in the ledges 2S, and thesmoke-pipe 22 is arranged forwardly of the point at which the partition 26 is located, so that when the partition is in place there is an unobstructed draft between the lire-box 5 and the smoke-pipe 22. It will thus be seen that the re-boxes 4 and 5 may be used either simultaneously or separately. The draft from the re-box 4 passes through the flue 14 and into the iiues between the casings 19 and 2l and out bythe smoke-pipe 22. The dampers 15, 16, 24, and will control this draft from the dre-box 4. The draft from the re-box 5 passes directly up between the casings 1f) and 21 and out of the pipe 22. By means of this arrangenlent which I have provided the hea/t in the several tire-boxes is entirely utilized for the pui'- pose of cooking, and very little of the heat escapes to be lost in the chimney, as in the ease with stoves heretofore produced.

In'order to hold the heat within the stove and to prevent its radiation, thus heating the surrounding apartment, which is very disadvantageous in. warm weather, I provide the several parts of the stove with non-conducting outer walls, as shown in the drawings. These non-conducting walls may be coustructed of any suitable material and may be made removable, so that should it be desired to heat the apartment from the stove the nonconducting walls maybe replaced by the usual iron walls. The fire-boxes 4 and 5 are provided with doors 30, which open at the front of the stove, as shown in Fig. 2. All of the parts ot the stove may, Wherever desirable, be constructed of non-conducting material in the manner and for the purpose explained above.

The grates 27 are provided 011 their under sides with guideways 31, in which asbestos plates 32 may be removably held, whereby to shield the dishes on the grates from the heat of the tire-box should it be necessary to partly arrest the cooking` of the food. The bottom of the casing 2l is provided with an opening 33 therein, which is normally closed bya removable lid 34. A heat radiating and distributing plate 35 is removably mounted on the bottom of the casing 21 to cover the lid 34. By these means the` heat radiating from the bottom of the casing 21 is eectively distributed throughout the oven. If desired, the plate 35 and lid 3i maybe removed, thus exposing the glowing coals and the fire-box 5, which permits the oven to he used for the purposeot hroiling food. The oven is provided at its front side with a door 36, by which access may be had to the oven.

Various changes in the form, proportions, and minor details of my invention maybe resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of myinvention. Hence Iconsider myself entitled to all such Variations as may lie within the scope of my claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A stove, having two fire-boxes honnected by a flue, one of the fire-boxes having a flat top, an oven situated directly over the second fire-box formed in the top thereof and having double walls forming fines Communicating directly with the second fire-box and leading from the same, and a smoke-pipe passing from the fines ot' the oven.

MARGARET KENNEDY.

Witnesses:

L. WATSON, R. 1V. HOPPER. 

